It was in histories by Tacitus and Caesar that the Romans brought Britain into existence, at least on the page. That empire vanished from these shores more than 1,500 years ago but its legacy is the subject of Charlotte Higgins’s transporting history-cum-traveller’s guide Under Another Sky (Jonathan Cape). This is not a straightforward story of […]

We look at the current crop of texts about Hollywood greats, including a typically subversive and idiosyncratic memoir from Nicolas Roeg and revealing conversations with an actress from the golden age of cinema, Ava Gardner.